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Nature means Necessity.

Philip James Bailey

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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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P. J. Bailey
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Necessity
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Nature

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Life is as serious a thing as death.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
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The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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Music tells no truths.
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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
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Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
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